Andy Katz says Tennessee basketball will be 'the team to beat' in the SEC

Marcus Rodrigue| 2 years ago

With Tennessee off to a rough start under first-year coach Jeremy Pruitt, many fans are looking forward to basketball season as a welcome distraction.

One media personality thinks the basketball Vols will be worth watching in their own right.

NCAA.com’s Andy Katz believes Tennessee could be a top-10 team this season a year after it tied for the most wins in the SEC. Katz said he thinks Volunteers coach Rick Barnes’ success at Texas will translate to Rocky Top, and his influence already appears to be taking hold as he heads into his fourth year with the program.

Well JM I am excited for bball season. I enjoy a lot of different sports and football is #1 but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy other sports. TN is hardly a basketball school but they will be very good and it will be fun to be on top for a change of pace. Barnes is doing a phenomenal job and he and the team deserve all of our support. Not sure if we are the team to beat in the sec with Kentucky but we will certainly give the cats something to think about and may very well take them down. We have sone good guys on our team. Guys that you can be proud to have at UT. So get behind them.

Side note: I hope that Admiral Schofield hype video released before the Florida game is not an indicator of things to come.

I’m probably analyzing it far more than it ever needed to be but it’s basically what I do for a living. One way of putting it could be as such: we needed a basketball player that people get excited about to star in a hype video in order to get people excited about football.

Gotta be honest though, that video was done exceptionally well and he could a have a hell of a future in broadcasting, acting, or in a commercial for an endorsement deal lol